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Western State Hospital disaster response, Franklin, Virginia: September/October 1999 GO TEAM narrative report

Author(s) -

Susan Tydings Frushour

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

journal of emergency management

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2374-8702

pISSN - 1543-5865

DOI - 10.5055/jem.2004.0032

Subject(s) - disaster planning , emergency management , narrative , west virginia , mental health , state (computer science) , suicide prevention , psychology , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , history , political science , psychiatry , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , law

This article describes the efforts of the Western State Hospital (WSH) GO TEAM staff to develop a mental health, disaster response program based on their own Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) team. Four social workers from WSH were deployed to eastern Virginia following significant flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd. Their experiences and the lessons they learned are detailed in this article.

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